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1) Rereading sex: battles over sexual knowledge and suppression in nineteenth-century America

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Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz

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A study of nineteenth-century opinions toward human sexuality examines the various viewpoints that shaped American attitudes toward the human body, love, intercourse, masturbation, contraception, abortion, free love, and erotica.

2) Campus life: undergraduate cultures from the end of the eighteenth century to the present

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Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz

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"Based on subtle, imaginative readings of autobiographies, memoirs, fiction and secondary sources, [Campus Life] tells the story of the changing mentalities of American undergraduates over two centuries."-- Publisher.

3) Wild unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the making of "The yellow wall-paper"

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Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz

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Presents a biography on the late author that focuses on the real events that inspired the famous work, "The Yellow Wall-Paper," along with the author's views on the work's true inspiration and meaning.